why curation...
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why curation...
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on inside the mind of Werner Herzog when he recommends books and films is yet superior to YouTube’s recommendation engine. Going from Herzog to Kapuściński and from Kapuściński to Mandelstam and Mandelstam to... See more
via Henrik Karlsson
the people who curate the Internet who have a point of view will actually become the centers of attention, and you cannot replace that with AI. You cannot replace that curator function or that guiding function that we've always looked to other individuals to do.
-Nilay Patel on Ezra Klein
The Age of Curation
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I’m glad that I’m not the only one who misses old school human curation. For me, it’s more about wanting a connection moreso than valuing the actual thing being shared. I think this trend is accelerating. With generative AI and the ever-present algorithm that has sucked itself into every facet of our life, a part of the response to it will result i... See more